All EVs are nearly 5000lbs. The xDrive i4 I mentioned is 5063lbs
But the interior DOES have buttons so it's back on my like list.
That BMW iDrive looks good but if it's all app and touchscreen based... Imma skip.
TBH though, all the damn nice EVs are touch screens or bubble crossovers.
Why the fuck do I want to drive a bubble. I want to drive an electric car. Take the Ford Mustang, put the electric parts in it, and don't turn it into a crossover. Take the Toyota 86, put electric parts in it. Do not turn it into a cross over.
Idk take any fucking car that looks like a fun car and goddamn it, put electric parts in it, don't add touchscreens, and don't stick your lips on the wand of soap and blow into the frame making it a goddamn bubble crossover.
I've said before - have you actually seen him in a situation where he'd be vulnerable like that?
There is a level of rich, and I don't know if it's when you make hundreds of millions or your first billion, but at some point it just becomes easier to only travel to secure venues by escort.
The security prices these guys pay must be insane to us, but likely a drop in the ocean for them.
Why do you think the flight tracking bothered them so much? Because it broadcast arrival and departure times, and destination. That allows planning.
If the public doesn't know when you arrive and when you leave, or how you arrive or how you leave, that's just a bit of added security.
I don't know how you guys keep finding Saddam like this but goddamnit don't stop.
They are fucking hilarious.
This one's particularly great - cause the first image he's holding a literal mouse, so you ain't looking for Saddam to show up in his goddamn arm. Between that and the "Chile" problem a little bit ago.
Goddamn this meme is like my life blood
I mean "so busy holy shit" with a kid + work + appointments + chores + a little room for alone time is a pretty good summary isn't it?
Man.
He's like if Dr. Evil and every bond villain were combined into one, then poorly written in a Sci-fi channel special as the wealthiest man in the world.
He doesn't actually do anything but be rich and say stupid shit, and for some reason people keep going along with it
I knew a second Trump administration was going to be a horror show, but I'm pretty sure Putin orchestrated a lot of this in revenge of the US using capitalism to crush the USSR.
He's now using capitalism to crush the US. And he's barely doing anything, he just had to help get a spoon fed capitalist elected and the capitalist would handle the rest.
Yep - the dissolving foam means it's just the right amount of solvent.
My dad would joke that it's the same stuff you clean paint brushes brushes with. Might not be too far off.
Which are reserved for South Dakota and Montana.
North Dakota explicitly gets nothing. I'm pretty sure it's in the constitution.
Does it really have oil?
And I know it's got a fuckton of missile silos but I imagine in an invasion they aren't terribly useful. I guess maybe an after you take complete control then it is
No that's the correct way to do it.
The way I described it is the "yeah you can literally do this lol" way
Hmmm. Hmmm? I didn't really think about incarcerated before. But I suppose if you were imprisoned for a law you don't agree with, the way to change it is voting.
By keeping prisoners from voting, you prevent law from changing.
A public parking lot or parking space seems to be a good place for a car.
Are we talking about incarcerated felons, or felons that served their time?
Would I have to work in China? If so, no thank you.
If not...
3x my salary you say?
Took me a bit to find it, but I knew I had something for this:
Texas should just say "Guns".
North Dakota should probably be "no civilization, no resources, and no warmth."
Ha which this reminds me of a story my dad told us when we asked if there was a shortcut through where we were going in the Ozarks. It was a time before phones.
"Peopleproblems, you don't take shortcuts around here. You stick to the main roads, follow the signs, and make darn sure you have a map. When I was in college, engaged to your mom, we were on our way back from doxable university and we decided to do that, cause my friend (has a name), said he knew of one. We went with it - we came up to a stop sign, and this old beat up truck pulled up next to us. A short ugly looking thin as bones guy with a beard and no hair, with his unfortunately worse looking daughter. He gets out of the truck after he places his shot gun on the dashboard drunkenly steps on over to us and says 'One o' yee need to murry my daughter. She ain't purty but she cook and clean real good. I don care wheech one o' y'all does, but we got e'rything ready. Jus follow us on down 'ere.' My friend says something stupid, I can't remember what, but his response was what I won't forget: 'I ain't given yee a choice.' As he heads back to the truck my friend just says 'Gun it!' and the little Gremlin I was in worked the hardest it ever had. Once we got back on the highway there was a mix of laughing and crying as we were facing a real shotgun wedding."
We were young at the time, so he left the sad part out. Around there incest/rape was a known thing, and she had probably gotten pregnant. He was likely trying to find someone to marry her so he didn't get the blame, she didn't get the problems associated with being a single pregnant mother in hillbilly land, and the whole problem is solved. And he'd do it at gun point if he had to.
Joker Folie A Deux was good
I didn't care for the musical nature of it. That aside:
The first 'Joker' clearly established that the main character was Arthur Fleck. Clearly suffering from mental illness as a result of abuse growing up, and the people he murdered were abusing him in some way. To me, as a long time Batman fan, this 'Joker' was anything but Joker.
- He didn't take pleasure in chaos.
- He wasn't anti-batman in anyway.
- A clear back story that lined up with his behaviors.
- Clearly a dude pushed too far (kind of like Killing Joke, but it didn't line up with that character's style).
However, when he was in the 'Joker' role, he became clear headed and focused. So now the 'Joker' clearly isn't Joker but the beginning of Joker?
In Folie A Deux, we see him continue to be abused, still having strange fantasies, a system failing around him, and noticably the 'Joker' character is resonating with people fed up with all sorts of bullshit. The collective desire to burn it down and restart - very common theme within the Batman comics and joker. We see Harley Quinzel introduced, and as we discover throughout the movie - this is the actual Harley Quinn Psychiatry, brilliance, obsessed with Joker to the point that when Arthur says it was just something he made up to do what he thought he needed, she quit him. The last parts of the movie tie is completely together. Ricky, who is killed by the only guard that is sometimes nice, breaks Arthur, realizing murder happens to those undeserving by those who 'shouldnt' be doing it.
Joker escapes after the court room explosion (with a burned Harvey Dent, that was badass). He's rescued by enthusiasts, who he escapes from. He encounters Quinn and she says that his "fantasy was all that mattered, and it's gone."
When the Joker is murdered at the end by the psychopath, he starts it with a retelling of the joke Arthur told Murray. Albeit, one that was significantly better delivered. He also notably uses a knife, and is laughing the whole time, and gives himself a scarred smile. This man, (if Warner Bros could ever finish a good DC series) would likely continue to be an evolution of 'Joker'.
This all works because:
- Joker rarely has a back story, and famously is stated to prefer his origin to be "Multiple Choice."
- Several comics and media (Notably the Arkham series of video games) explore how Joker is not confined to a single person. Unlike Batman who has very specic goals, values, and traumatic origin, Joker is a shared 'idea' between these individuals that reject the value of civilization at all.
- Harley Quinzel was only introduced in the 90s, but her main obsession with Joker evolved over time as he abused her, or burned things she learned to care for, but seemingly remained obsessed because of some 'fantasy' she provided him, UNTIL he broke that fantasy and she quit him abruptly just like in the movie.
I don't think it was a great movie. But it actually reimagined the same Joker story in a new way that I did thoroughly enjoy. And it left it plenty open for more stories from it, just as all good DC stories do.
How do long time married couples with a single income split finances (not seeking legal advice, literally the how)
I'm talking like one person brought in all the money for a decade, then a divorce happens. Some of it makes sense - a house with mortgage, one spouse buys the other out of the house. Which is great, but if one spouse doesn't have the income to take a loan out to buy the other, does that mean that the spouse who does have the income has the choice to buy out or sell?
Similarly, things like 401ks and pensions I imagine you can't just take out half the cash in them and give that to their spouse. Or does that have to be a loan for the amounts in those plans?
Is it debt all the way down for both?
In Today's Cliche Post: How the fuck do I meet new people locally?
Let me set the stage: Newly single dad of a young kid. After COVID-19 I haven't done much outside of my home and taking care of my kid. I work full time-remote, and between the kiddo and leaving room for a hobby or taking care of the house, it seems like the only other thing I have time for is sleep.
The thing I know is that this is likely an issue with my anxiety and anxious attachment. The conclusion we've arrived at in therapy is that I gotta meet people. I apparently forgot, or don't know how to do that. Where to meet people. It's not a big city, but 200k-300k people in the county.
Maybe I'm looking for something of a strategy more than anything.
edit: thank you guys, I really appreciate it!